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Is kenneth fine berg, from the Victim Compensation fund and author of the book what is the life worth . The unprecedented effort to compensate the victims of 9 11. Kenneth fineberg, why did you call the book that you just wrote what is life worth . Because congress in setting up this program after 9 11 delegated to me and really to me alone the requirement the obligation to try and calculate what each death caused by 9 11 or each physical injury should be paid out of public funds. What were you ...

That i think the point needs to be made here is if you look at where we are, for example, the president s budget which was just submitted, by 2021, what we are paying in interest will exceed the defense budget. As i look at the work that you have done on the Bipartisan Commission and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall, looking at the bigbudget, mandatory spending, programs that we need to have similar looks at medicare, Social Security, very important programs to people,...

Forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Say to my good friend steve that i used to sit next on on the House Armed Services committee that i agree with you except im more concerned with todays war than i am with the war after next. Right now is when were having the problems that were having and we had a hearing last week. We had schlesinger, george schultz, madeline albright. And they reminisced over what our abilities were, capabilities at that time, what is expected an...

U. S. Fighter jets launching a new round of air strikes in iraq after bombing islamic militants early this morning prompting the faa to ban u. S. Flights from iraqi airspace. Check out the markets. Not what you would have expected. Investors appear to be completely unfazed, all three major indexes in the green with the dow and the s p 500 posting largest gains since march 4th of this year. So is your portfolio out of woods . Jonas max ferris is here with important you need to know. What do you m...

Brittany. Our temperatures today will stay below average but colder because of wind gusts up to about 20 Miles Per Hour. Our feelslike temperature right now in the poconos only 17 degrees, feels like 30 degrees in allentown, feeling like 32 in philadelphia, 33 in Atlantic City, so bundle up when you head out the door. Well see partly cloudy skies today. The other thing we want to point out, a few snow flurries will press into the poconos and as we head into the afternoon dont be surprised some o...

Areas. A lot of stuff going on. First, temperatures are in the 20s with clear skies and temperatures that have come down to run a little colder than yesterday. 29 degrees here at nbc 10. And 20s for most locations. Mt. Holly, Atlantic City philadelphia international, 29 degrees. And its in the low 20s for reading and pottstown. We will see bright sunshine to begin with. And a fairly quick warm up up to 32 degrees at 9 00. Then near 40 degrees at lunchtime. But thats when the wind starts to kick ...

March thaw we could all look forward to. I will see you later in the broadcast with that information in the seven day. Kathy, thanks very much. Kathy will be here all night and then tomorrow morning our team will be tracking snow. Join ukee, erika and katie for Eyewitness News at 4 30 they will have the latest plus any delays, and School Closings that might occur. Developing now a man with ties in philadelphia is charged with trying to help the terror group isis. Two other men are accused of bei...

Point this year. But Stanley Fisher made it clear that the path ahead will be anything but smo and st. Louis fed president James Bullard also warned of potential volatility. But this time in the equity markets as the Federal Reserve gets ready to raise its benchmark Interest Rate. The temper tantrum in the summer of 2013 was all about markets being surprised that the fed was going to pull back on qe sooner than it thought. There was a mismatch between what markets thought and what the fed though...

Floor of the New York Stock Exchange have been thinking about all day today, late in the session over in germany, the dax index had been in rally mode until the very end. Look at that selloff. Fell out of bed. And finished with a gain of three points. Some of the traders are wondering if the same thing could happen here in this last hour with the dow up 108 points. Just something to think about as we go toward the close. Well keep an eye on that here. Meantime, also an hour from now, netflix wil...

Done research theres theres burdens in having such programs and definitely administrative work that will be added but despite that we had recommended and the committee has approved bringing to you for approval a loan Program Large items part of the loan program include the only active participant would be eligible for loans a written repayment agreement is required and collateral requirement and under the internal ref reviewing revenue no more than 50 percent of your balance 50,000 for all loans...